posted at 2:01 pm on March 27, 2014 by Ed Morrissey

Thousands of Colorado residents may find themselves without health-insurance coverage, thanks to the failure of their state exchange to finish their paperwork. Megan Reardon thought she had completed her ObamaCare application in November for herself and her children. In January, she discovered that her application never got filed with her chosen insurer, and she’s not alone (via Newsalert):

Megan Reardon signed up last November. “It said our application was received and they (Connect for Health Colorado) would send notification when our carrier accepted our application,” said Reardon, a stay at home mom with four kids. “I figured it was an easy process and it would be taken care of by January 1.”

But when no notification came in the beginning of the year, she began calling Connect for Health and her chosen insurance company, Kaiser to find out why she had no insurance. “I was told there was no application,” said Reardon.

She became worried, especially with four young kids, who are constantly in-and-out of doctor’s office. “If something happens and we have to go to the ER and all of a sudden I am paying out of pocket?”

A former executive assistant, Reardon kept meticulous records of her calls to Kaiser and Connect for Health. She estimated an average of up to 2 hours a day on the phone trying to get her family health care insurance. “If policy is the law, then we need to make sure it is working.”

More than 2200 other Coloradans have the same problem. On top of that, the sign-up figures for the state ObamaCare exchange are falling far short of the estimated number of uninsured in the state, according to the exchange’s own data. Only 112,000 have signed up (many of whom may not have completed an enrollment), which is only about a sixth of the uninsured in the state:

Lundburg told FOX31 Denver that 750,000 people in Colorado are uninsured and were expected to sign-up for health insurance though the exchange, but with 112,000 signed up less than a week before the March 31 deadline.

“That’s not a success story. If it was supposed to provide more insurance; it’s not doing it,” said Lundurg.

Lindy Hinman, Chief Operating Officer with Connect for Health, disagrees with the 750,000 number provide by Senator Lundburg, stating those number were provided by an outside non-profit agency, not Connect for Health Colorado.

But FOX31 Denver found those same numbers being posted on the state of Colorado’s own webpage concerning questions and answers about Health Care Reform in the state.

I linked it earlier, but I pointed out the extremely wide discrepancy between the numbers of the uninsured and the quickly-shrinking enrollment goals of the Obama administration in my Fiscal Times column today:

The biggest joke, though, is the pride in which the White House promoted its five millionth sign-up earlier this month. The imposition of the Obamacare regiment kicked as many as six million Americans out of their existing plans by the end of 2013 despite the “you can keep your plan” promise, which means that we still have not yet hit the break-even point on market churn. …

If this system works as well as the Obama administration insists, where are all of the uninsured? Why haven’t we seen massive numbers of enrollments from the beginning if that was such a crisis as to require the kind of intervention Democrats imposed, at an estimated cost of $1.5 trillion dollars over the next ten years?

While we consider that, also consider the costs of the distortions that ObamaCare imposes on labor markets. North Carolina substitute teachers have had their hours cut because of the costs to districts for providing health insurance based on the 30-hour work week mandate. For one district, it amounts to $6 million:

If that’s the cost for one school district, imagine what it will be for businesses of any significant size — and guess what they will do to mitigate their exposure to those costs.

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For all the hundreds of millions spent on dishonest anti-obamacare advertising, still the only thing that has slowed the cbo projected signups was the unforced error of the website not working for the first month.

Think about that. Hundreds of millions spent on obamacare attack ads, and they haven’t done a thing to slow the projected signups. Pretty stunning, really.

Of course, the fact that the right is actually spending all this money trying to scare people out of buying medical insurance is digustingly immoral in its own right. The fact that every single one of these scare ads has been exposed as a blatant lie raises that immorality to a mindblowing level.

Spending hundreds of millions of dollars lying to people to scare them into putting their lives at risk. Hell is too good for these people.

LOL – These obamanites who suddenly discover that they ARE NOT actually enrolled, should be thrilled at their great fortune. Only a complete idiot would sign up for obamacare – but in cases such as this, these dopes are being given a second chance to not be stupid – Will they blow it?

In January, she discovered that her application never got filed with her chosen insurer, and she’s not alone

I’d have to think that she also hasn’t paid her first premium yet. Does this mean she will get dumped from her plan for failing to pay after March 31, and what does that mean for her and the kids for the rest of the year?

“Paging the Smartest Man in the Room, please pick up the white courtesy phone…”

Gee I wonder, who will pay them for the services they render. That’s a stumper.

Fenris on March 27, 2014 at 2:17 PM

What means are available to record the real charges either. The whole thing is on the “honor” system. People are showing up at doctor’s offices with the letter. Some docs are confused and others are saying, no thanks.

Thousands of Colorado residents may find themselves without health-insurance coverage, thanks to the failure of their state exchange to finish their paperwork. Megan Reardon thought she had completed her ObamaCare application in November for herself and her children. In January, she discovered that her application never got filed with her chosen insurer, and she’s not alone (via Newsalert):

Wait it means, cher scallywag, is that enrollment is a slow process, its going to take a while. But the trend line is positive. Which is why Ed et al are producing anti-Obamacare blog posts at a FEVER pitch. I mean, for them to push those juicy culture war threads down thread? To not even post Palin caping for Duck Dynasty? Those are the posts that drive clicks. But these Obamacare posts are about whistling past the graveyard, by next Novemeber Democrats will be openly running on the ACA. Mark my words.

A former executive assistant, Reardon kept meticulous records of her calls to Kaiser and Connect for Health. She estimated an average of up to 2 hours a day on the phone trying to get her family health care insurance. “If policy is the law, then we need to make sure it is working.”

She became worried, especially with four young kids, who are constantly in-and-out of doctor’s office. “If something happens and we have to go to the ER and all of a sudden I am paying out of pocket?”

Well, the good news is, for the first $5000 – $12000 of medical expenses (depending on ZeroCare plan) there’s no difference between having a plan and being uninsured.
I’ll bet she thought the gubmint was paying the entire premium, too!

Without the “I voted for Obama, but…” disclaimer, it’s hard to decide on sympathy. But kids are involved, so there.

bbhack on March 27, 2014 at 2:18 PM

We are past the point in this imposition of tyranny where sympathy, or assumption of good intent by its proponents in any aspect of their lives, have any application. We are at the point where Darwin is in play. Not only for the parents, but for the children they dragged down with them. You cannot save those who choose not to be saved. If they voted for Obama, and yet still believed his lies enough in his second term to sign up, then they cannot be saved. Those Leftists who survive this may learn a lesson, but that is doubtful. Given even the Obamacare best case enrollment figures, which are certainly false and on the high side; she most likely is an Obamabot.

Well, the good news is, for the first $5000 – $12000 of medical expenses (depending on ZeroCare plan) there’s no difference between having a plan and being uninsured.
I’ll bet she thought the gubmint was paying the entire premium, too!

Marcola on March 27, 2014 at 2:42 PM

Exactly! $5,000 deductible + maybe $5,000 in premiums = $10,000 out of pocket before the insurance company starts picking up 50-80%.

This is not insurance. This is a total scam and many will not realize it until their first doctor’s visit.

Lindy Hinman, Chief Operating Officer with Connect for Health, disagrees with the 750,000 number provide by Senator Lundburg, stating those number were provided by an outside non-profit agency, not Connect for Health Colorado.

But FOX31 Denver found those same numbers being posted on the state of Colorado’s own webpage concerning questions and answers about Health Care Reform in the state.

Amazing how the number of uninsured was touted – pre Obamacare, as a policy scare tactic – yet post Obamacare, those numbers aren’t that high.

Here are a couple of points:
1. For whom did she vote? Did she vote for Barack Obama? Is she a DemoNcrat?
2. quote: four young kids, who are constantly in-and-out of doctor’s office. This is the definition of a health care hog. No one needs to bring their children into a doctor’s office constantly. I’m sure now we’re all looking forward to the children coming to an emergency room constantly.
3. You’re paying for this, folks. No matter how, you’re going to pay for this person and her children.
4. Finally – where is the husband? Want to bet this is a single mother who is divorced from the father(s) of her children? I’ll take that bet.

What’s going to be funny are the salaries being paid for the people working the health care that doesn’t work. The obama care is going to end up like the Department Of Energy (DOE) working over thirty years to get us off foreign oil at a cost last year of 23.3 billion dollars, 16,000 employees that failed. Maybe thirty years down the road everyone will forget 2014.

We are past the point in this imposition of tyranny where sympathy, or assumption of good intent by its proponents in any aspect of their lives, have any application. We are at the point where Darwin is in play. Not only for the parents, but for the children they dragged down with them. You cannot save those who choose not to be saved. If they voted for Obama, and yet still believed his lies enough in his second term to sign up, then they cannot be saved. Those Leftists who survive this may learn a lesson, but that is doubtful. Given even the Obamacare best case enrollment figures, which are certainly false and on the high side; she most likely is an Obamabot.

Subotai Bahadur on March 27, 2014 at 2:46 PM

Read the Old Testament.
Read the New Testament as well.
You could even read The Book of Mormon.

Happens over and over again, just in a different context.

And there is that “wages of sin” thing, which applies to the architects (and I use that term loosely) of Obamacare; the status of the quasi-innocent dupes is more like that of the people wanting an “easy religion” where they never have to actually — you know — take personal responsablity for obeying God’s commandments, or anything icky like that.